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Pinecest

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This article is about the pairing of Dipper and Mabel Pines. You may be looking for Stancest, the pairing of their relatives Stanley and Stanford Pines.
Pairing
Pairing: Dipper Pines/Mabel Pines
Alternative name(s): Pinecest, Mystery Twins
Gender category: Het, Incest, Twincest
Fandom: Gravity Falls
Canonical?: No
Prevalence: Small/medium
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Pinecest is the het twincest pairing of Mabel Pines and Dipper Pines in the Gravity Falls fandom.

Canon

The twins are close, friends as well as siblings.

"I tell you, it's unnatural for siblings to get along as well as you do."

Grunkle Stan, 2x11 "Not What He Seems"

They do not get together in canon, nor is there any particular subtext between them. Rather, their shipability comes from their complementary personalities. They embody many classic opposites-attract tropes, with Mabel being bubbly, artistic, and warm, and Dipper being serious, snarky and anxious.

Fandom

Big Name Fan Double Pines was absolutely seminal to the ship, and was active from 2012 to 2016. Double Pines produced quite a bit of fanfic and fanart, but was most well known for fancomics. Some later shippers describe their fanworks as more fanworks of Double Pines' work than Gravity Falls.[1] In 2016 creator Alex Hirsch Tweeted "My opinion on headcanons: they're all equal. They are yours. They prove you're invested & that's cool. But they don't need my input...I'm not going to condemn a headcanon, or confirm one, or destroy one. It's not my place. Your idea belongs to you!"[2]

Common Tropes in Fanworks

  • Aged Up: Virtually all fanworks depict the twins as high school students or college students, or occasionally as adults later in life. Fics involving them as 12- or 13-year-olds (their age in canon) with crush on each other do exist, but are very rare.
  • Mental health: Often a core theme in Pinecesxt works. That Dipper has PTSD from being possessed by Bill Cipher during the canon is a popular headcanon. Also popular is the headcanon that Dipper has more generalized anxiety. Dipper commonly works through or copes with either or both of those things in fanfic, with Mabel's help.
  • Kidfic: Often featuring their popular fanmade daughter Cassiopeia "Cassie" Pines.
  • Reverse Falls: AU where Pacifica Northwest and Lil’ Gideon switch roles with Mabel and Dipper
  • Tripletcest: The Pines are not twins, but triplets
  • Star motifs: Canon has the motif of Mabel as a shooting star, while Dipper has motifs as both a pine tree, and as the constellation the Big Dipper. Invoking both the shooting star and constellation motifs in a joint starry motif is popular.

Controversies

  • Incest: The ship is subject to same general controversy that all incestuous ships are.
  • Underage: In canon the twins are 12, turning 13 at the very end of the show. Thus, they are seriously underage. Fanworks virtually always age them up, most being High School AUs and College AUs.
  • Real Person Fiction: Because the characters are based on show-creator Alex Hirsch and his real-life twin sister Ariel Hirsch, some have called the ship RPF. However most people agree it does not count, and moreover, that considering "based on a real person" to mean RPF is a dangerous precedent to set, given its very wide-reaching implications.

Discussion concerning Pinecest has been officially banned from the r/gravityfalls subreddit.

Fanworks

Fan Art

  • mwah by hidingravy

    mwah by hidingravy

  • dorksinlove.png by Double Pines

    dorksinlove.png by Double Pines

  • by gayincesthell

    by gayincesthell

  • Starry Pines, from the Problematic Ships Project

    Starry Pines, from the Problematic Ships Project

  • kissing in Sweater Town by Koschei0

    kissing in Sweater Town by Koschei0

  • Blushing by Flasho-D

    Blushing by Flasho-D

  • Mabel's Mind Palace by mi-dispiace

    Mabel's Mind Palace by mi-dispiace

Fanfiction

Toothpaste [1] by manhattanDate: 21 Oct 2012Length: 1kStatus: Complete
A famous, very early fic.
Dream Girl [2] archive by Tat_Tat and ConiferoussiblingsDate: Mar 28, 2015Length: 12kStatus: Complete
Mabel ventures into Dipper's mindscape and stumbles onto pining.
even at our swiftest speed we couldn't break from the concrete [3] archive by mickberDate: Sep 11, 2015Length: 5kStatus: Complete
An eviscerating break up fic. The most agonizing angst fic this ship has to offer.
Already Seen [4] by inlineforpinesDate: Oct 10, 2015–Feb 21, 2016Length: 18kStatus: Complete
Getting together fic, with déjà vu, dream, and memory tropes.
Protectionverse [5] by dddippinsauceDate: Aug 30, 2016–Nov 13, 2017Length: 56kStatus: Complete
Molly [6] archive by pineneedleshurtDate: 14 May, 2014Length: 6kStatus: complete
Breakdown [7] archive by GravityPinefallsDate: Apr 13, 2017Length: 17kStatus: Complete
A beautiful get together/first time fic. More introspective and less tropey than you'd expect, considering There is Only One Bed.

Cosplay

Links & Resources

References

  1. ^ "Important question: why is Doublepines so worshipped by the pinecest community?". Archived from the original on 2020-03-17.
  2. ^ Hirsch, Alex (2016-03-07). "@_AlexHirsch". Twitter. Retrieved 2025-04-17.
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